Identifier: mystoryofwarwoma1889live (find matches)
Title: My story of the war: a woman's narrative of four years personal experience as nurse in the Union army, and in relief work at home, in hospitals, camps, and at the front, during the war of the rebellion
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905
Subjects: United States Sanitary Commission Flags
Publisher: Hartford, A. D. Worthington and company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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very forceful and attractive public speaker. The
inspiration of the war developed in her capabilities
of whose possession she was not aware, and she sur-
prised herself, as she did others, by the exercise of
hitherto unsuspected gifts. Of how many women
workers of the war could the same be said!
A devoted Presbyterian from childhood, Mrs. Hoge
was very catholic in spirit. Her largeness of heart
included the race, and, united to her keen sense of
justice, led her into the charitable and reform work
of the time. She was concerned for the public wel-
fare, and gravitated instinctively towards public
work. It was impossible for her to do otherwise
than identify herself with the interests of the country.
And when two of her sons entered the service, she
gave herself unreservedly to the work of relieving
our sick and wounded soldiers.
My friend still lives in Chicago, where the calme
vening of her days is brightened by the society of
her husband, with whom she has spent more than
half a century of happy wedded life, and by the
encompassing tenderness of her children, seven of
whom are settled around her. By her grand, good
life she has earned a long sojourn in the Land of
Beulah, while awaiting the summons to the "Celes-
tial City."
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WOMEN OF THE WAR.
FAMOUS NURSES OF UNION SOLDIERS

" A DAY AT THE ROOMS " 163

There was always more or less volunteer and tran-
sient help in the rooms. Sometimes companies of
ladies, who gave their services on certain days; some-
times young girls, who caught the patriotic spirit o
the time, and craved a share in the work; some-
times detailed soldiers fi-om Camp Douglas, doing
guard duty over rebel prisoners; sometimes conva-
lescent soldiers from the hospitals, who sought to
dispose of the lagging hours while awaiting trans-
portation to their regiments. There was never any
lack of employment. The rush of business lasted all
day and ran over into the midnight. We frequently
took letters to our homes requiring immediate answer,
and in the stillness of the night overtook the work
that outran our most diligent efforts during the day.
Not even could we control the hours of Sunday
during those busy years. The work of hospital
relief ran over into them, and busy scenes were some-
times enacted at the " rooms," of which the closed
doors gave no hint to the thronging church-goers.
" It is lawful to do good on the Sabbath day."

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